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It's Trump's Nomination To Lose* — Tuesday night went about as well as possible for Donald Trump. — Two weeks ago, after a rough stretch of states for Trump, we issued a series of delegate projections that included something called a “path-to-1,237” projection, a set of targets …
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Ted Cruz is crumbling before our very eyes — MORE FROM: — For the past few weeks, Republican campaign professionals and conservatives who are seeing the GOP nomination heading into Donald Trump's hands have been counseling anti-Trump voters not to panic and consoling themselves …


IT'S OFFICIAL=> Ted Cruz Is Mathematically ELIMINATED from GOP Race - With Chart — As we predicted on April 2nd.... As of today, April 26, 2016, Ted Cruz is mathematically eliminated from winning the Republican nomination outright. — On April 2nd we predicted that Donald Trump …
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Cruz to make “major announcement” at 4 p.m.; Update: Fiorina as VP? — Hopefully he's planning to announce he's now learned that a “basketball ring” is commonly referred to as a hoop. Good lord, man. — Only two possibilities for what the announcement might be. One is that he's finally landed Mike Pence's endorsement.
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Why Donald Trump Is Probably Two States From Victory
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Trump wins every county in ‘Acela primaries’
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Ted Cruz Desecrates Classic Movie Scene By Calling Hoop a “Basketball Ring”
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Asked and Answered: President Obama Responds to an Eight-Year-Old Girl from Flint — At eight years old, Mari Copeny—known around town as “Little Miss Flint”—wrote to President Obama last month from her home in Flint, Michigan to share how she is working to bring attention to the public health crisis in her community.
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Sanders Statement on Primary Elections — HUNTINGTON, W. Va. - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday issued the following statement: — “I congratulate Secretary Clinton on her victories tonight, and I look forward to issue-oriented campaigns in the 14 contests to come.
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Clinton's refusal to quit in 2008 haunts her in 2016
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After 5 State Sweep, Trump Turns His Attention to Clinton
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Bernie Sanders is no fool. He'll back Clinton when he drops out.
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Trump's big speech tests his foreign policy and style — WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's highly anticipated foreign policy speech Wednesday will test whether the Republican presidential front-runner, known for his raucous rallies and eyebrow-raising statements, can present a more presidential persona …
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World to watch as Trump outlines his foreign policy
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Saying ‘vagina’ got me fired, Battle Creek middle school teacher says — Vagina. It's a noun describing female anatomy that caused such outrage in the Michigan Legislature in 2012 that a legislator was blocked from speaking after using it. — Now, a substitute teacher says using it got …
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W. Mich. substitute teacher fired for using anatomical word during lesson
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Hastert sentenced to 15 months in prison — CHICAGO — U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin has sentenced former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison, calling him a “serial child molester,” and ignoring the defense's request for no prison time.
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Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’ - poll — More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is “rigged” and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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Trump Can't Beat Clinton. Who Says?
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Van Hollen wins testy race for Mikulski's seat … Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a seven-term congressman who has risen rapidly through the ranks of the Democratic leadership in Washington, won the party's nomination for Maryland's open Senate seat Tuesday. — The son of a Baltimore family …
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The Daily 202: The Democratic Establishment strikes back in the Acela Primary
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Winners and losers from the I-95 primaries
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Melania Trump on Her Rise, Her Family Secrets, and Her True Political Views: “Nobody Will Ever Know” — How does a shy ex-model make her way from Slovenia to, just maybe, the White House? To Melania Trump—and to the people who know her back home—her journey to marrying The Donald is like a fairy tale …
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Foley Plane Crash Caught on Camera — FOLEY, AL- — Surveillance video from a Foley business captured incredible images of a plane crash near the city's airport. — The crash happened south of the airport off Hickory Street Tuesday afternoon. A Cessna 421 Twin Engine clipped a few trees over business


Here Are All The Sexist Things Donald Trump Said About Hillary Clinton Wednesday Morning — At the very end of a news conference commemorating his absurdly dominant Tuesday night performance, Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of playing “the women's card” and said, “If [she] were a man …
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Mary Pat Christie throws some shade during Trump's speech
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Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards Swept by Anti-SJW Authors — Again! — For the second year in a row, nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction & fantasy have been swept by the Sad Puppies & Rabid Puppies, two groups of authors and fans who oppose left-wing domination of the community.
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Hugo awards shortlist dominated by rightwing campaign
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Trump's sweep is another humiliating defeat for media and political elites — Donald Trump's sweeping victories Tuesday night move the Manhattan billionaire a step closer to winning the Republican nomination for president and to pulling off the most improbable political feat in modern American history.
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DeRay Mckesson finishes 6th in Democratic primary for Baltimore mayor … Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson finished in sixth place Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Baltimore mayor. — With 95 percent of results tallied, Mckesson garnered 3,008 votes — or 2.5 percent of the total.
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